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Pre-premiere of #minaret to open One Dance Week in Plovdiv on September 21

June 19, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The pre-premiere of #minaret by the star of the Arab region Omar Rajeh will open the 11th One Dance Week festival on

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Bulgaria Leisure 

National Gallery – The Palace in Sofia to exhibit 40 portrait photographs by Félix Nadar

June 19, 2018June 20, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The National Gallery – The Palace in Sofia is to exhibit 40 of French photographer Félix Nadar’s best portrait photographs

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Plovdiv Mediaeval Festival 2018 to be held on June 23-24

June 5, 2018June 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The Plovdiv Mediaeval Festival will be held on June 23 and 24 2018 at Mladezhkiya Hulm (“Youth Hill”) in Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria scores well on EU bathing waters survey, but number of ‘excellent’ sites drops

May 29, 2018May 30, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria’s coastal bathing waters remain up to the European Union’s mandatory standards, but the number of sites meeting the “excellent

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Annual ‘Opera in the Park’ in Sofia from June 15 to 30 2018

May 28, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Sofia Opera and Ballet’s annual Opera in the Park series of performances is being held in the GS Rakovski military

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Opera Open 2018 begins in Plovdiv on June 23

May 28, 2018May 30, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The programme for Opera Open 2018, from June 23 to July 29, has been announced by State Opera Plovdiv. The

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Plovdiv’s Regional Archaeological Museum exhibits items from ancient Episcopal Basilica

May 13, 2018May 15, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Plovdiv

An exhibition of items from Plovdiv’s Episcopal Basilica, the largest early Christian basilica of its kind found on the Balkans

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Exhibition ‘Bernini and the Roman Baroque – the Language of Modernity’ opens on May 15

May 13, 2018May 14, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

An exhibition entitled “Bernini and the Roman Baroque – the Language of Modernity” opens at the Palace of the National

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Sofia Science Festival: Quentin Cooper: ‘The best way to change the image of scientists is for people to meet them’

May 1, 2018May 7, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sofia Science Festival

Ask a child to draw a picture of a scientist, and it is likely you will be presented with a

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